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Engineering students want jobs at NASA, Google, Boeing, Apple and Microsoft — in that order

If space is the final frontier, today’s engineering students want to be a part of exploring it, according to a… Read More

Washington teen wins NASA “Why Space Matters to the Future” video contest

There’s just something about Washington teenagers and their ability to talk about space exploration creatively. The Coalition for Space Exploration… Read More

Seattle gamers jam out with NASA

In the span of 48 hours, Seattle-based independent game developers created working prototypes of computer games with help from NASA.… Read More

From Space to SOPA: 10 Tech Triumphs of 2012

Rovers, particles, and skydiving from the edge of space. And that was just the beginning. Earlier this week, GeekWire documented… Read More

Podcast

Podcast: Space Shuttle Trainer and beyond, with Museum of Flight CEO Doug King

A week from today, on Nov. 10, the Space Shuttle Trainer will make its official debut at the Museum of Flight… Read More

Boeing wants to take down space junk with clouds of gas

Orbital debris, also known as space junk, is a problem that many people in government and the commercial space industry… Read More

No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night

They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode… Read More

Museum of Flight lands trove of personal papers from NASA icon George Abbey

They arrived at Seattle’s Museum of Flight in more than 100 boxes — nearly four decades worth of personal papers… Read More

Photos: A rare peek inside the Space Shuttle trainer

Some people in the Seattle region might have been disappointed last year when we didn’t land a real Space Shuttle.… Read More

‘NASA and We Know It’: Seattle team’s video goes viral

You know you’re doing something right when your video about the latest NASA mission gets retweeted by NASA to its more… Read More

Amazon’s cloud powering NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover

Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA’s latest and… Read More

Dear NASA: Nice work landing on Mars — maybe now you should dump Windows XP?

Attention, Microsoft: It’s probably time to send a sales rep to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A video by Boing Boing,… Read More

Super awesome ‘Curiosity’ approaches Mars, set for ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’

The plan to land the roving space lab Curiosity on Mars this weekend is the stuff of the wildest imaginations.… Read More

The Super Guppy has landed: Scenes from the delivery of our Space Shuttle replica

Updated at bottom with picture of the crew compartment after it was unwrapped. We (and our kids) had a great… Read More

Space Nerds Rejoice! The Super Guppy is on its way

Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece… Read More

Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet

Here’s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop… Read More

Mining asteroids: The official word (and videos) from Planetary Resources

Planetary Resources, a Bellevue-based startup backed by big names in space, technology and movies, has grabbed the attention of the… Read More

Space robot company may pull an asteroid into orbit

More details emerged today about Planetary Resources, and the Bellevue-based startup’s plans are sounding more and more like something out… Read More

First piece of Seattle’s Space Shuttle Trainer arrives

Seattle’s Museum of Flight today unpacked the first piece of its new Space Shuttle Trainer, unveiling one of three engine… Read More

Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares to test unique system for aborting rocket launches

Blue Origin, the space venture backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is pushing ahead with development and testing of its… Read More

Q&A: Charles Simonyi on the magic of space and the ‘coziness’ of the trip home

Seattle’s Museum of Flight this week dedicated its new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, named after the former Microsoft engineer and… Read More

Congratulations, Seattle: You’re getting a space toilet

It just kept getting better and better at Seattle’s Museum of Flight today. First former, Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi announced… Read More

Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi

Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it… Read More

Bezos’ Blue Origin declines to testify at U.S. House hearing

Participants in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program — private companies working on spacecraft to take U.S. astronauts to the International Space… Read More

LaserMotive to work on NASA power-beaming project

LaserMotive, a company south of Seattle developing ways of beaming power via lasers, has been named as one of the… Read More

Seattle’s Museum of Flight questions data used by NASA to pick homes for retired shuttles

NASA staffers understated attendance for Seattle’s Museum of Flight and didn’t count Canadian visitors in their measure of the region’s… Read More

NASA report shows why Seattle didn’t land a Space Shuttle

Seattle’s Museum of Flight was among the top contenders this spring for a decommissioned Space Shuttle — placing well ahead of many… Read More

Pic of the Day: Juno takes off for Jupiter on an Atlas V

Hey, at least the end of the Space Shuttle Era doesn’t mean the end of spectacular blast-offs. That’s an Atlas… Read More

Branson, Allen, Bezos gear up for the private space race

At the very end of his recent autobiography, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen briefly teases ahead to a future project —… Read More

End of the Space Shuttle era: Tracking the Atlantis launch

Weather permitting, NASA is less than an hour away from the scheduled launch of Atlantis, the final mission in the… Read More